Navjot Foods Limited is a large multinational private company generating in excess of $7 billion in sales. It produces both frozen and non-frozen food products and makes one third of the frozen French fries produced worldwide. It has manufacturing operations on six continents, sales operations in over 160 countries, and employs more than 17,000 people Most private companies choose to use ASPE. However, some private companies like Navjot have adopted IFRS. Because the company is so large, it treats itself for reporting purposes like a public company

Instructions (a) Navjot has numerous subsidiaries located throughout the globe. How would this type of multinational structure motivate Navjot to choose IFRS?

(b) Why would users of Navjot's financial statements want those prepared using IFRS? Try to relate the usersneeds to the four qualitative characteristics of accounting information relevance, faithful representation comparability and understandability

(c) It is often assumed that only large private companies would choose to adopt IFRS and small companies would avoid IFRS. do you think that is? Can you think of reasons why a small private company would want to adopt IFRS?